Law School calls 3, 435 to Bar

By Ameh Ejekwonyilo
Abuja

The Nigerian Law School yesterday called its 3, 435 students to the Bar in Abuja.
In an address at the ceremony, the Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Mr. Olanrewaju Onadeko, said the management of the school had taken “pro-active measures to safeguard its campuses in Kano and Yola by installing high perimeter walls with security barbed wire on top.
He also said arrangements had been concluded for the installation of CCTV
cameras in all campuses of the school in view of the daunting challenge of insecurity in the country.

According to him, the problem of over admission by law faculties in the country has almost been surmounted following the potent synergy between the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Council of Legal Education.
The grandson of late sage Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Adedamilotun Oluwapelumi Aderemi was among the 3, 436 successful candidates that were called to the Nigerian Bar yesterday in Abuja.
Onadeko disclosed that four of the successful candidates came out first class, 96 in second class upper division, 620 placed in second class lower division while 2, 697 were in pass grade.
The Nigerian Law School D-G charged the new wigs to adhere to the norms and ethics of the legal profession, adding also that the legal profession in Nigeria, had always been known to produce eminent international jurists, scholars and legal experts all over the world, with strategic positions.

In his speech, the chairman of the Body of Benchers, Chief T. J Onomigbo Okpoko, charged the successful candidates that are called to Bar to adhere to the rules of professional ethics which regulate the conduct of lawyers and the conduct of law business by members of the profession.
While admonishing the new wigs to make the rules their companion, Okpoko said: “It is obligatory that the new wigs and members of the profession by their action or inaction enhance the honour of the law profession and the dignity of its members by their words and action, whether in public or private life.
He reminded the new wigs that the membership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is compulsory for all lawyers under the Legal Practitioners Act, just as he advised them to respect the court and never to engage any judge or magistrate in hot exchange of words or engage in what may appear to be a quarrel with adjudicators or colleagues.